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Originally Posted by Itse
Well, this was always going to be the Ukrainian "winning strategy", theoretically.
Stop the advance while avoiding major engagements as much as possible to conserve your own strength, drain Russian forces as much as you can, hit supply lines and any units you can catch isolated, gather strength for counter-offensive, then punch back hard with the hope that it will put "poorly supplied and poorly motivated" Russian troops on the run.
Assuming there really is a significant counter-offensive about to happen and not just something smaller, we should soon know a lot more about what the overall situation really is.
EDIT: obviously a war of attrition is the other option, but obviously it's less preferable.
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I still don't think that the Ukrainian's can really afford a war of attrition, they lose that one. The first strategy looks like the most likely, however with the Russian's hitting logistical centers could slow down or stop the flow of weapons and soldiers to the various fronts. The longer this goes on the less likely that the Ukrainian Military would be able to muster enough troops for a significant counter punch, which is badly needed.
On the Russian side it does sound like moral is becoming a huge issues. Hence the importation of about 20,000 fighters from the Middle East.